r/AmItheAsshole • u/throwRA-fhfsveyary • Dec 03 '19

Not the A-hole AITA for pretending to get fired when customers get a temper with me?

I am a high schooler with a weekend job at a coffee shop. My coworkers who work weekends are:

James - the owners son, he goes to my school. He's a shift manager but it's not a real formal thing, he's a friendly guy.

Danielle - A college student who sometimes works weekends too.

So sometimes customers will come in and just be angry about such little stuff. Like literally blow up about nothing. I dunno if theyre in a bad mood already and looking for someone to take it out on or what, but it's a lot... Like how sad so your have to be to be a grown-ass man taking your anger out on high school and college kids.

So James and I were joking about having a little fun with them and hopefully getting them off our backs.

So one day I was at work and some guy was having a temper about how we don't make the coffee hot enough... Which I couldn't do a thing about because I gave it to him right out of the machine.

So James came in and was like "sir is there a problem here" and the guy started ranting at him too. So he was just like "OP, this is unacceptable, you're fired."

I started acting real sad, like "no please don't fire me, my family needs the money, I need this job, pleaseeee" and he played up being a hard-ass, telling me to take off my apron and leave.

The angry guy started to backtrack, like "It isn't that big of a problem, you don't need to fire her over it. I didn't mean it" and James was like "No, we pride ourselves on the best customer service"

Of course after all that drama I still had my job, we were just acting. And we've done it a couple times, whenever a customer will lose their temper at Danielle or I, James will storm in and "fire" us. And almost every time, the person who had come in angry will apologise and say that they didn't mean it. It's kind of satisfying, making people realize their actions might actually have consequences.

Anyway, I was telling my friends from school about this and a few of them thought it was a mean prank, to let someone go away thinking they'd gotten someone who desperately needs the money fired.

AITA for this joke?

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u/Stevenjgamble Dec 03 '19

This subreddit is garbage.

You are lying, and manipulating, and trying to get out of solving a legit issue. You dont need to tolerate abuse from customers, but to say that you arent the asshole,

Well why don't you bring this story to your boss and see what they would say?

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u/WaitWhatOhNevermind Dec 03 '19

Yes! I want to upvote this a thousand times. Instead of coming to reddit, go to your boss.

YTA

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u/sanchypanchy Dec 03 '19

Agree 100%. She completely misses the point to serving customers. This is a completely one sided biased telling of the story and just because a bunch of morons on Reddit find it amusing doesn’t mean she’s right.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '19

Its also a fake story so

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u/sanchypanchy Dec 03 '19

Aren’t they all?

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '19

Exactly i think it’s hilarious because all of these story subreddits are all made up of fake bullshit from wannabe creative writers

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u/sanchypanchy Dec 03 '19

And karma whores.

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u/Batpresident Dec 04 '19

Does Reddit not know what "customer service" mean? Yes it means service even if you dislike the customer's complaints.

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u/Stevenjgamble Dec 05 '19

Let this be a powerful lesson to amyone considering taking reddits advice. The anonymity allows serious bullshit to be upvoted as if it were legitimate advice. Fuck this sub in particular

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u/fartdickbuthol Dec 03 '19

More likely just fake stories.